Insetos capturados com armadilha Malaise na Ilha do Mel, Baía de Paranaguá, Paraná, Brasil: II. Tabanidae (Diptera)

Abstract

[NSECTS CAI'TlI KED wml MALAISE TRAI' AT TIIE "[I.IIA !lO MEL". BAiA DE PARANAGUÁ. PARANÁ, BRAZll.. [I. TAIlANIIJAE (DIPTERA). TWl) Malais~ tra)'s (TOWNES' [972 l11odd) wae installed on an island (the "[[ha do Md ") in the Bay of Paranaguá. frol11 Septel11b~r. [988 to August. 1989. at two s it~s denol11inat~d "Forta[eza" and "Praia Grande". for collection of ins~c ts. At "Fortaleza". 1.715 individuais ofTabanida~ w~re cartured. rerresenting 3.20'JI• 01' ali Dirtera captur~d in this site. while at "Praia Grande" 1.420 individuais of the same family w~r~ ea rtur~d. representing 5.06% of ali Diptaa eaptured ther~. ln "Fortaleza". Tabanidae is represent~d for 10 sreeies. while in "Praia Grande" it is represented for nine spee ies. Dichelacera alcicomis (Wiedemann. 1828) was th~ most ahllndant speeies at two sites. r~presenting 87 .. 'i2 ?f aml 66.69% of ali Tahanidae capturcd at "Fortaleza " and "Praia Grande". respectivdy. The greatest numha of individuais occ urr~d in Nove mher. the month with the lowest rela tive humidity associated to small pluviometric rr~c ipitation. just afta a month with high rdatiw humidity a~srx:iat\!d lO a high pluviollldric pr\!!.:ipitation. KEY WORDS. Tahanidae. rhenology. Paraná Os Tahanidae são dípteros popularmente conhecidos como "mutucas", principalmente do leigo que mora fora dos centros urhanos e dos veranistas que se deslocam para o litoral paranaense, os quais sofrem ataque e reações alérgicas decorrentes de suas doloridas picadas (FRANÇA 1975). Anteriormente (MARINONI & DUTRA. 1993), detiniram os objetivos do "Levantamento da Fauna Entomológica no Estado do Paraná", e mais especiticamente na Ilha do Md (DUTRA & MARINONI 1994). No presente trahalho, apresentamos o estudo a nívd específico da tamília Tabanidae (Diptera). para a qual contamos com a identificação feita pelo Dr. Inocêncio S. Gorayeh (Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi) e com uma boa coleção de referência existe nte na Coleção ile~ntomologia Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, do Departamento de Zoologia da tJ niv~rsidade Federal do Paraná. A existência de um estudo anterior para o grupo , irlc h.i~ndo a região litorânea do Paraná (FRANÇA 1975), o depósito deste material na'Coleção s upracitada, a pOssihilidade de um estudo comparativo entre o material capturado na região continental e o do amhiente insular, além da facilidade de I) Contrihuição número 791 do Derartamento de Zoologia. Universidade F~deral do Paraná. 2) Departamento de Zoologia. Uniwrsidade F~(kral do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19020. K 1531-970 Curitiha. Paraná. Brasil. Bobista do CNPq.

Tabanids in South America

“…Phaeotabanus cajennensis was also captured in ecotone between sandbank and rainforest and Phaeotabanus limpidapex (Wiedemann), and Phaeotabanus litigiosus (Walker) (more abundant from 17:00 to 19:00 h) were captured next to marsh and rain forest area on Marambaia Island, Parana subregion, Brazilian Atlantic Forest province [65]. This last species was also captured on Mel Island, coastal zone of Parana subregion, southeast Brazilian [152]. Phaeotabanus limpidapex was also captured at coastal zone of Parana subregion [59].…”

“…Also in Parana subregion, southeastern Brazilian plateau, were recorded species of Acanthocera (three), Chrysops (six), Dichelacera (three), Diachlorus, Fidena (two), Lepiselaga, Phaeotabanus, Poeciloderas, and Tabanus (eight) [59,63]. Dutra [152]. Survey conducted between 1995-1997, using Malaise traps, southern Chacoan subregion, Pampa province, Brazilian far south, resulted in a list of 30 species, mainly representatives of Chrysops genera (seven species), Dichelacera (three species) and Tabanus (seven species) [60].…”

First record of Trypanosoma evansi DNA in Dichelacera alcicornis and Dichelacera januarii (Diptera: Tabanidae) flies in South America

“…The focus of most of the published literature on tabanid species from Brazil and the rest of South America is their taxonomy [4][5][6][7], ecology [8,9] and behavior [10,11] in different biomes, and molecular tools were not used for identification or bioprospecting in these studies. More specifically, few studies have addressed tabanids in southern Brazil [12][13][14][15][16][17], and only one reported the molecular detection of a strain of a trypanosomatid, Trypanosoma kaiowa, which is associated with the crocodilian clade of Trypanosoma [18]. Cases of trypanosomosis caused by T. evansi [19] in that region have been described in which the involvement of tabanids was assumed.…”